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February 27, 2015
03:18 PM PST

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10-12 Million bats roost in this cave, the second largest bat population in the world. It's an incredible sight when they all fly out of the cave at dusk. We were told it takes 4 hours for them all to exit the cave.

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Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera (/kaɪˈrɒptərə/; from the Greek χείρ - cheir, "hand" and πτερόν - pteron, "wing") whose forelimbs form webbed wings, making them the only mammals naturally capable of true and sustained flight. By contrast, other mammals said to fly, such as flying squirrels, gliding possums, and colugos, can only glide for short distances. Bats do not flap their entire forelimbs, as birds do, but instead flap their spread-out digits, which are...